Module 0: Introduction

0.9: How To Use This Course

Developmental—beginning with basic foundational information and building into complex care;

Case-based—using real situations as exemplars that allow integration of the materials into clinical practice; and

Flexible—allowing you to move among content areas to focus on those topics or issues that are of most interest or relevance to your needs.

Outlines and specific objectives are provided with each content area to focus your study. Each section includes hotlinks to other sections with explanatory, in-depth, or related materials; these will facilitate ease of movement to alternative content sections. You can always by-pass any section because each is designed to stand alone, although we suggest that the first module on demographics provides a base that will facilitate an understanding of the issues that our current health care system and we, as practitioners, are facing.

Development of this curriculum was funded by University of California Academic Geriatric Resource Program, the UCSF John A. Harford Center for Geriatric Excellence and the US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Admin, Bureau of Health Professions (HRSA/BHPr), Grant Number UB4HP19046